History of Asperger Syndrome

In looking up the history of asperger syndrome you will find a short and brief history depiction. Mainly you will find information honoring the finder as well as the person making the name popular. But in looking farther, you might find instances and recordings of a history of asperger syndrome symptoms much farther back in our history.

To begin with the history of asperger syndrome: It is named in honor of Hans Asperger who lived from 1906 to 1980. He was an Austrian psychiatrist and a pediatrician. He was the director of the University Children’s Clinic in Vienna. While in Vienna, Dr. Asperger wrote a medical paper describing four children from his practice. These children had problems socially with others, by failing to read nonverbal communications like facial and body language. They did not seem to have empathy for others and were particularly clumsy. Despite all these problems, the children were very bright and appeared normal and intelligent.

He also noticed that when they spoke it was with a formal speech pattern and that they had obsessive interests in one particular topic and that topic would be the focus of their conversations. At first Dr. Asperger named the condition “autistic psychopathy” because of the social isolation problem and wrote a paper on it. He believed that despite the issues the boys each had, that they would be able to achieve exceptional things later in life. This was in the early history of Asperger syndrome.

At the same time in the history of Asperger syndrome that Dr. Asperger was writing his paper an Austrian psychiatrist named Leo Kanner was researching autism. Dr. Kanner was an Austrian, born in 1894 who emigrated to the U.S. in 1924. He later died in 1981. In fact in 1943 Dr. Kanner wrote his medical paper as he recognized and was working on people who showed signs of what we know today as “classic autism”. It should be noted in the history of Asperger syndrome that when Dr. Asperger wrote his paper in 1944, he did not know of Dr. Kanners writings.

Later in the history of Asperger syndrome, a psychiatrist named Lorna Wing wrote a clinical account about Asperger syndrome in a publication in 1981. This writing made the term “asperger syndrome” much better known and highlighted the research of Dr. Asperger. Dr. Wing had an autisitc daughter and helped found the National Autistic Society in 1962. Included in the history of Asperger syndrome, Uta Frith wrote the first book on the subject in 1991. Because of this, several more in depth papers were written in the late 1990’s.

There are other interesting facts on the history of Asperger syndrome on the internet, including history on cases and symptoms in earlier centuries, before Dr. Asperger.

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